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Lawson with some warmth. Mrs. Montgomery had adroitly slipped out unobserved and was busying herself over some mending which was needed. She could hear the hum of the voices and could almost distinguish the words being said. "If Stephen Verne is not a downright fool he will straighten matters up yet," thought the woman as she put away the work-basket and began to plan work for the following day.
"Maybe you weren't," he said simply, "But it wasn't either your fault or mine and you couldn't help it that I wanted you." He made a quick movement as he passed the table, and my work-basket fell at his feet, and a little jewel-box rolled across the floor. It was a ring he had brought me, only three days before.
Ernest held the letter helplessly and looked round. For him there was a double desolation in the room. The books stood untouched upon the shelves; his mother's work-basket was laid aside. Suddenly there came back to him the memory of that last day at home, the joyous spring-day in March, which was so full of gay sounds.
He would always be the same obstinate old dear: ready to set himself against the whole weight of immemorial authority, whether in literature or everyday life. She did not read, but with a large work-basket on a chair by her knees continued busily sewing until bedtime. And the tenderness that she felt as she stitched and stitched was overwhelmingly more than she could feel even for Will.
Its single room with its raftered walls, books and a lamp, an old-fashioned stove, a work-basket, a faded rag-carpet and the trophies of childhood, boy and girl, was snug and comfortable. "It's Donald's and mine," said Joan. "We've always studied here with Mr. Abbott." "Mr. O'Neill," said the minister stiffly, "it it has been a sort of secret. Mr.
For instance, I will tell you. When that chair was by the window, there was a little table beside it. On the table was the work-basket of your poor Signora, whom may the Lord preserve in glory! Is it truth?" "Yes," answered Griggs, with perfect indifference. "It is quite true." The allusion did not pain him, the man who was talking with Stefanone.
Every morning when I woke, I longed to be up, and to get to him." "That is, you loved him. Well: your papa and I love you all, in the same way. We get up with pleasure to our business your father to his shop, and I to my work-basket because it is the greatest happiness in the world to serve those we love." Hugh said nothing; but still, though pleased, he did not look quite satisfied.
"He's reading his paper, and doesn't want to talk." They went down-stairs together and found the room empty. Tembarom turned up the lowered gas, and Little Ann sat down in the cozy-corner with her work-basket on her knee. Tembarom drew up a chair and sat down opposite to her. She threaded a needle and took up one of Jim's new socks. "Now," she said. "It's like this," he explained.
If you'll get out your work-basket, I'll rummage in this trunk for what I need." A muslin skirt was selected as material for the doll's body and her underwear, and a dainty dressing-sacque was chosen to make her frock. Mrs. Patterson pencilled an outline on the cloth, then rubbed out, redrew, changed, and corrected the lines, with painstaking care.
May I give it to him to send them? 'Never mind the Irish children. This is for yourself. 'Myself? Johnnie looked up, bewildered, but with a sudden thought, 'Oh! I know, Aunt Theodora, won't it buy that pretty work-basket to give mamma on her birthday? She said she could not afford it. And Helen wanted the great donkey in the shop-window. Oh!
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